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On 20 Apr 2006, at 10:51, Ricky Rankin wrote:
> I know that looking at views by country is not an exact science.
> However in preparing a report I notice that the ration of pages
> viewed from
> US to pages view from UK over the last year went from 48% to 119%.
>
> I can't believe that our friends in the US have suddenly taken a great
> interest in the QUB site.
>
> Can anyone supply a rationale explanation that I can use to let
> others know
> what is happening or is it a case that views by country are totally
> unreliable
You are right in saying that 'grouping by country is not an exact
science' and should be taken with a very large pinch of salt.
Groupings for US domains is very hard as US sites can exist under
many suffixes and non-US sites are frequently registered
under .com, .net etc. If the US sites just stuck to .us or something
like that then life would be a lot simpler.
At Manchester we used to use Webalizer, but when development on that
software froze we switched to AwfFull which is based on the Webalizer
code but with a lot more facilties.
John
(AwfFull developer)
John Heaton
IT Services
The University of Manchester
B39, Sackville Street Building
PO Box 88
Sackville Street
Manchester M60 1QD
phone: +44(0) 161 275 6011
skype: MacBuff
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